Samuel Palmer, The Sketchbook of 1824

A facsimile of the only one of Palmer's sketchbooks to survive

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Printing Details

First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 17.5 × 24cm, 221pp.

Samuel Palmer was one of the most visionary and mystical landscape painters of the Romantic era. This volume is a facsimile of the only sketchbook not to have been destroyed by the artist’s son after his death in 1881. No other surviving source provides such an immediate record of Palmer’s fertile imagination, or give such insights into his artistic and spiritual struggles. A stunning object to treasure, Samuel Palmer: The Sketchbook of 1824 will be desired by all those who seek to understand the inspiration of one of Britain’s most important landscape artists.

Condition

Good plus condition. There is a little fading to the boards and a slight hint of splaying to the boards but otherwise a very good solid copy.

ISBN

9780500976517